2009-12-03, 12:48
sijones Wrote:Could a mythtv scraper pull the information into the TV shows db?
Then we would have full details for the tv shows supported by the skins out of the box..
Sort of yes, sort of no. The TV Show Library in XBMC still relies on season and episode numbers. These aren't pulled back through the libcmyth interface (and if it could relies on them being in the EPG originally). The current patch for getting the TV Shows into the Library relies on the original air date, from which thetvdb.com data is used to get the season and episode number and plot etc from thetvdb.com (effectively ignoring whatever was in the MythTV EPG in the first place).
It might be possible to put the TV Show information held within MythTV into XBMC using a season and episode number of 0, but I haven't spent enough time in the scraper / video library area to know for sure.
I'll add this back onto my list of things to look at if people see some value in doing this. This was talked about briefly ages ago at http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=33948